PREPARATION (Classified)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62S00545A000100020116-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 116
• Publication Date: July 15, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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RADIXIM FOR: All Division and Branch Chiefs I 5 Ally 1958
SUBJECT:
Preparation of Gaps in Information Reqgirements
1. In a number of instances recently, ERA supervisors and analysts
who visited Agency installations abroad have reported serious shortcomings
in the system of ERA's collection requirements. Some of the principal
difficulties in servicing our requirements, from the point of view of the
field stations, appear to stem from the multiplicity of unrelated and
uncoordinated requests for information and from the leek of any systematic
organization of our priority requirements for economic information. Another
difficulty seems to stem from the fact that the field collectors usually
leek sufficient knowledge of the existing state of our information concerning
particular industries or sectors of the various Bloc economies.
2. After a series of discussions on requirements problems, it has been
decided tentatively to have all appropriate ERA branches prepare Gaps in
Information Requirements, listing priority requirements in each major subject
for each country within their field of responsibility. An example of such
a Reqgirement is attached. It is proposed to establish a formal project
to cover the initial preparation of these Revirements statements, With an
appropriate allocation of manhours and due dates, and it is also the intent
that the Requirements should be revisedannually, or more often where
necessary.
3. Several of these Gaps in Information Requirements have already been
prepared by some ERA Branches and have been in use for about a year. They
have been given wide distribution and were very well received by field
collectors. Although it is recognized that the initial preparation of
these Requirements will take considerable time and work, it is hoped that
they will ultimately reduce the .total amount of time that the Branches must
spend in preparing an& revising requirements. They should eliminate the
need for the submission of gaps in intelligence requirements upon the
completion of specific research projects. They should also reduce the
number of individual requirements which a Branch will find it necessary to
submit to St/I during the year, since all important gaps in information -
would be noted in the Branch's basic set of Gaps in Information Requirements.
They should also make it easier for a Branch to prepare requirements tailored
to a specific source who has become available and should facilitate the
periodic up-dating of current intelligence requirements for inclusion in
the OCI Periodic Requirements Lists (PEL). Finually, by providing field
collectors with background information and an indication of our priority
needs, the Gaps in Information ReqUirements should result ultimately in an
improvement in the quality of economic reporting from the field.
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SECRET/NOFORN/CeNTINUED CONTROL
GAPS IN INFORMATION
EAST GERMANY
POST AND TELECJMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
BACKGROUND
1. The public post and telecommunications system in East Germany,
which provides postal, telephone, telegraph, radiobroadcast, wire.diffusion,
and television services, is managed by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommu.
nications. The government is the dominant user of telephone and telegraph
cervices, in spite of the fact that certain government ministries$ along
With the military, operate and control functional telecommunications
facilities to meet specific needs. Post and teleconmunications services,
both domestic and international, are available in all parts of the country?
Telecommunications services are carried by integrated wireline, microwave
radio rely, and pointeto.point radio facilities.
2. The Ministry of Posts and Taeoommunications enployed about 130,000
persons in 1957 and received a total revenue from its operations of About
900 million Deutsch Marks, East (VC),
3. In spite of the ap lication of automation techniques to the tele-
communication gystem, substantial delays are encountered in the placement
of telephone calls and in the transmission of telegrams. These deleys are
caused by insufficient local and interurban telephone exchange capacity, by
inadequate capacity of interurban lines and by the low technical level of
personnel.
4. With regard to broadcasting, amplitude modulated (AN) radio.
broadcasting service is considered adequate, but frequency modulated (FT)
radiobroadcasting service is limited. Future emphasis will probably be
p aced on the provision of additional FM facilities. Television broad.
casting is confined to nine stations. Additional stations and increases
in transmitting power of existing stations, along with an expansion of
network television, are means to be used in improving the effectiveness
of the television servicee
5, Prior to 1953, East Germany was forced to export large quantities
of telecommunications apparatus to the USSR. Since then, USSR demands have
lessened and East Germany has made some progress in building, rebuilding,
modernizing, and expanding its telecommunications resources. Manual
operati.on is giving way to automatic operation in the telephone and telegraph
network, Line capacities are being increased by channel-multiplying apparatus
and new lines of microwave radio rely facilities are being installed.
6? Future trends in this sector of the economy hinge largely on levels
of investment and improvements in training, Increased labor productivity
appears achievable through greater application of automation and mechani-
zation, along with reductions in labor turnover.
7s Given these opportunities, East Germany should be able to fulfill
its current plans for rounding out the reseurces of this sector of the
economy for governmental use, Little increase in availability of service
for private consumers can be expected.
8. Information available on the post and telecommunications sector
of the East German economy is composed primarily of aggregate data for the
Ministry of Posts and Telecomnunications. The main gape in information
concern the specific details witch underlie these aggregate data, For
example, aggregate data are available concerning total investment for post
and telecommunicatiens, These data, however, do not include breakdowns
of investment by main administrations, such breakdowns are necessary for
a complete analysis of the activities of the Ministry. The questions set
forth below cover these gaps in intelligence information, ,
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SECRET
QUESTIONS
The following queetions are categorized in subject headings which are
listed in descending order of priority.
A. Investment.
1, From 1956 to date, what portion of the total investment of the
Ministry of Posts arid Telecommuni-ations was invested by the Main Adn
ife;ration for Poet, the Main Administration for Radio and Television
T:chnology? the Main Administration for Radio and Television uperatione
2. Lhat percentage of annual investment, 1950 to date, was spent on
ncee wireline construction? On new equipment? On facilities for the Groups
or Soviet Forces Germany?
Revenue and l'aenditures.
1. at is the breakdown of total revenue within main adminietretione
Of this total, how much was derived from postal, telephone, telegraph, and
beeadcasting services? What reveries is derived from various consumers?
2, What is the breakdown of total expenditures within main administrae
tions?
C. Lebor Force.
What is the tdal labor force of each eain administration? %bat is the
distribution of these labor forces by function? How is the total wage bill
distributed within main administration's?
DP 2122211222 and 1.21.10:221?
1, What is the total length of wirelines? %hat portion of this total
is long distance line? Local line? Open wirelines? Multicondueter'. Cable
line? Coaxial cable line?
1953?
24 What portion of the wireline network has been constructed since
3. what is the total capacity in Channelekilometers of the wireline
network?
%hat is the distribution of telephone and telegraph traffic :Volumes
of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications between civil and military
users?
Hoe many Channelekilometers of telephone and telegraph wirelines
and microwave radio relay lines are leased by the Ministry of Parts end
Telecommunications to the military?
6, From 1956 to date, what is the average waitiee time encountered
in placing interurban and local telephone calls?
E, Television and Radiobroatine
10 %hat are the plans for extending the television network?
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2, %hat are the plans for increasing the number and power of treriuten
transmitters?
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